"President John F. Kennedy was the last president to stare down this life-or-death decision. On Feb. 12, 1962, Kennedy commuted the death sentence of Jimmie Henderson, a Navy seaman, to confinement for life."
So the great man stood up to the CIA, the MIC, the Israelis and their nuclear bomb plans, organized crime, and --despite all his failings -- STOOD FOR LIFE!!!!!
No wonder the man had so many enemies, and no wonder they took his head off.
"Bush gives a rare OK to Army execution
by Associated Press | July 29, 2008
WASHINGTON - President Bush yesterday approved the execution of an Army private, the first time in over a half-century that a president has affirmed a death sentence for a member of the US military.
With his signature from the Oval Office, Bush said yes to the military's request to execute Ronald A. Gray, the White House confirmed. Gray had been convicted in connection with a spree of four murders and eight rapes in the Fayetteville, N.C., area over eight months in the late 1980s while stationed at Fort Bragg.
"While approving a sentence of death for a member of our armed services is a serious and difficult decision for a commander in chief, the president believes the facts of this case leave no doubt that the sentence is just and warranted," White House press secretary Dana Perino said.
In the military courts, "Private Gray was convicted of committing brutal crimes, including two murders, an attempted murder and three rapes. The victims included a civilian and two members of the Army. . . . The president's thoughts and prayers are with the victims of these heinous crimes and their families and all others affected."
Unlike in civilian courts, a member of the military cannot be executed until the president approves the death sentence. Gray has been on death row at the US Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., since April 1988.
Members of the US military have been executed throughout history, but just 10 have been executed by presidential approval since 1951 when the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the military's modern-day legal system, was enacted into law.
President John F. Kennedy was the last president to stare down this life-or-death decision. On Feb. 12, 1962, Kennedy commuted the death sentence of Jimmie Henderson, a Navy seaman, to confinement for life.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower was the last president to approve a military execution. In 1957, he approved the execution of John Bennett, an Army private convicted of raping and attempting to kill an 11-year-old Austrian girl. He was hanged in 1961."I'm against the death penalty except for traitors who torture and lie us into mass-murdering escapades and loot this nation while doing it.
